This post got started because I’ve had at least two conversations with colleagues have shown that the creators of Modern Taxpayer Funded Compulsory Schooling have accomplished their main goal: create students who can’t communicate.
If a young person is unable to speak or write clearly, what can he do? Additionally, if a teenager has his immediate gratification gene satisfied at all times by his phone, what motivation is there to work at a skill? You are what you repeatedly do - yes - so what if you repeatedly do something that closes you off from your family, classmates, church, community, and the business world?
When the business interests of the day needed a method to intellectually shackle a dynamic and hyper literate American population, they created what we know today as school - 12 years worth. That’s how long it takes to hammer down all the creativity and dynamism inherent in the human soul. The natural alliances that have to be created by Johnny and Suzy American in Jerkwater USA in order to climb the economic ladder had to be blocked. Artificial competition for points was one way. The other was to inhibit methods of communication and to isolate young people. The men in the secret society based in Yale called it “The Unprinted Curriculum”.
Think of a teenager walking down the street, the hallway, at a restaurant, on the train … is that screen-staring earbuds wearing 17yr old a threat to the System?
The question answers itself.
This point was driven further home when I read this passage from a Gatto essay written 10 years ago.
This Week in Schule: The Unprinted Curriculum